THE Pharmacy Guild of Australia is seeking feedback on the proposed revised draft of the Australian Standard 85000 Quality Care Pharmacy Standard.
The proposed draft AS 85000:2016 Quality Care Community Pharmacy Standard seeks to promote flexibility and innovation in the industry, and aims to ensure relevance for at least five years. The draft AS 85000:2016 Quality Care Community Pharmacy Standard seeks to outline the business framework required to operate a community pharmacy in Australia. The revised draft standard also seeks to recognise the diverse business models within community pharmacy.
The draft AS 85000:2016 Quality Care Community Pharmacy Standard does not seek to override or replace existing regulations or industry specific guidelines and as such should be read in conjunction with these documents.
The Guild is inviting feedback to support the increasing occurrence of complex compounding within community pharmacy. Therefore two draft standards have been proposed.
Option A -- complex compounding is integrated into the draft AS 85000:2016 Quality Care Community Pharmacy Standard in recognition that pharmacies that undertake complex compounding need to consider this service in all aspects of their business model.
Option B -- complex compounding forms a select section of the draft AS 85000:2016 Quality Care Community Pharmacy Standard in recognition of the specialist skills and service models required to provide complex compounding.
Individuals or organisations wishing to provide feedback are requested to COMPLETE THE ONLINE SURVEY. The consultation period for feedback on both options will remain open until Monday 5 December.
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